Simon Initiative Work in Rural Panama Begins

Carnegie Mellon University learning engineers are heading to rural Panama to help teachers improve student outcomes in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses. Greg Bunyea, a recent graduate of the Masters of Educational Technology and Applied Learning S cience program, will lead the work. Bunyea and his colleagues are working to adapt tools from the OpenSimon Toolkit for students at Forum Academy , a unique school that provides access to high school education for students in the central Panamanian province of Coclé. A gift from John Keffer, a 1971 alumnus of CMU's Tepper School of Business , is supporting this work. Keffer founded Forum Academy, which is supported by Forum Foundation. "Part of our philosophy at the Forum Academy is to prepare students for lives of active learning,” Keffer said. "This technology supports that and bolsters our curriculum in a new and exciting way.
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